Inside Electronics

The advantages that electronics manufacturers and their customers can leverage from using additive manufacturing (compared to traditional processes) include faster, more cost-effective design and development of high-quality prototypes in just a few days with more design iterations to accelerate go-to-market times, improve process integration, and optimize manufacturing processes.

When many consider vehicle electrification, they tend to dive into the granularity of the solution sets and how do we get to where we're going. However, there are also application-specific needs that should be addressed in their migration to electric vehicles. Andy Turudic from Electronic Design and Paul Peluso from Officer Magazine chat about considerations, challenges and opportunities when it c...

Timing and synchronization are vital to electronics in many ways, from on-board circuit control to inter-device communications, to network management and beyond. The ability to accurately time and coordinate events, data, and signals is fundamental to the performance of a smart connected embedded system today. We talk to Q-Tech 's former president, Ron Stephens, about advanced timing systems and t...

Engineering a product that is disconnected from customers and markets risks time, money, and reputations. In this episode, Laura Reese, Silicon Valley engineer and author of business book, “Align,” joins Electronic Design's Andy Turudic and Endeavor Business Intelligence EVP Paul Mattioli , to discuss her experiences and insights for defining successful products that address customer and market ne...

Electronics companies are concerned about how new and potential tariffs might disrupt their global supply chain. Many vendors rely heavily on production in China, Canada, and Mexico. Unfortunately, much of this remains in flux as threats and follow-through are changing almost daily.   In this episode, Power & Motion 's Sara Jensen, IndustryWeek 's Robert Schoenberger, and Electronic Design 's...

The Cloud is expanding into space, and phased-array antennas (PAA) are critical enablers of the convergence between NTN and terrestrial networks. Giorgia Zucchelli, Product Manager for RF and Mixed-Signal at MathWorks , talks about this challenging space. 

Advanced MEMS timing solutions have emerged that offer advantages to legacy solutions, helping to reduce the size and power consumption in IoT devices with smaller oscillator packages and integrated features that reduce component count. Piyush Sevalia, Executive Vice President of Marketing at SiTime talks about how the company's timing devices keep everything in sync with greater dynamic stability...

Electronic Design Technology Editor Cabe Atwell and Senior Content Director Bill Wong attended this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This podcast highlights half a dozen technologies and products that stood out. Here's the list: Ambarella – AI-enhanced SoC handling 25 vision language model (VLM) streams  TDK – mini-laser image projection into eyeball Ocutrx – virtual reality for surg...

Manufacturers must face the rigors of a fast-paced marketplace, adapting to not only technology issues but also changing consumer trends for functionality and product performance. Bringing new products into the marketplace is complicated by regulatory bodies in various markets, as many are now stricter on compliance and standards of quality. In this episode, we talk to Gustavo Sepulveda, Robotics...

RISC-V is just an instruction set definition albeit one that can be incrementally defined and spans functionality from an integer-based system to one that sports floating point, virtual machine and vector extensions. Things get more interesting when looking at the implementations of a RISC-V core . Different implementations can offer features from multiple execution units to out-of-order execution...

The proliferation of connected devices promises to revolutionize consumer, commercial, and industrial applications, but they require continuous power, which until now has meant batteries that must be replaced or recharged.  Ambient Photonics is addressing both the low power density and high-cost problems of legacy technologies with powerful low-light energy harvesting solar cells. In this episode,...

The amount of data that a server farm, regardless the size, must manage is tremendous. This data management challenge is not just at the board level, it is also a challenge in the cables and interconnect between the modules and their racks. Point2 Technology offers its e-Tube technology, which overcomes the limitations of conventional copper cabling while eliminating the power, latency, and cost o...

The promise of wide-bandgap semiconductors like Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) are finally being manifested in advanced products and solutions for power electronics. In this episode, we talk to Andy Smith of Power Integrations about the latest developments in the space. 

The power electronics industry has been thrown into a state of disruptive evolution with the advent of wide-bandgap semiconductors and the resulting advanced circuit topologies. In this episode, we talk to Guy Moxey, the VP of Power Development at Wolfspeed, about the state of wide-bandgap power electronics. 

400 G copper cables make up the bulk of connections in data centers these days with 800 G and 1.6 T on the horizon. Active electrical cables (AECs) are a requirement for copper cabling   In this episode of Inside Electronics, William Wong talks with  Point2 Technology's David Kou about AECs including their new Point2 P1B121 integrated, eight-unidirectional SerDes with smart Clock Data Recovery (CD...

In this episode, Alix Paultre will talk about his impressions and thoughts from the recent electronica show in Munich, Germany. From the hot topics to the cool technology, the show had a lot of interesting elements. 

Insane levels of electrical power are needed to support AI in datacenters , and the electrification of mobility means development of remote locations for the extraction of critical mineral resources including the powering of fully electric 1MW mining trucks. A number of startups are developing Small Modular Reactors in the 20MW to 500MW power output range, requiring extensive site development, con...

Devices are becoming more intelligent and can be tailored to be patient-specific, making a medical device that not only provides for the whole population, but can also really target the patient cohort or the target group of the disease or condition that must be treated or diagnosed. There are many recent advances that have enabled medical advice development, from the sensors to the software, and i...

All electrical systems need power and these days most systems need a steady, efficient, and cost-effective source. Solutions like switched mode power supplies (SMPS) are now common but not necessarily easy to design or select.   Guest host Bill Wong talks with Frederik Dostal, a power supply expert with Analog Devices and also the author of the regular Dostal’s Design video/article series covering...

Today’s system-on-chips (SoC) are very complex. They have multiple cores and often many different types of cores including CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. Connecting these to peripherals and memory as well typically include one or more network-on-chips (NoC).  In this podcast, guest host Bill Wong talks with Andy Nightingale, VP Product Management and Marketing at Arteris , about NoCs. 

In this episode of Inside Electronics, Senior Content Director Bill Wong talks with Steve Brightfield, CMO at BrainChip , about neuromorphic computing in the form of spiking neural networks (SNN). SNNs take an event-based approach to artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Brainchip's Akido technology implements SNNs in hardware providing similar acceleration support that existing ne...

Industrial automation is getting real (time) with time sensitive networking (TSN) . This open standard delivers determinism to Ethernet control networks and it works with wireless networks as well. Senior Content Director Bill Wong talks with Tom Burke , Global Strategic Advisor, CC-Link Partner Association (CPLA) about how TSN works and why it is so important to industrial automation applications...

The Maker Movement is a relatively new phenomenon in society...or is it? The desire to understand technology and create things is a drive that has existed in people since the first devices were created. We sit down with Electronic Design editors Andy Turudic and Cabe Atwell for a discussion about the Maker Movement, Tinkerers, and engineering. 

In this episode, Andy Turudic talks with Geor gia Tech ’s Professor Shaolan Li about their ECE department’s new analog IC design course where close to a dozen teams of three undergrad and one graduate student are fully hands-on designing real silicon, from schematic through tapeout, with resumption of the course to perform functional verification in a returning semester, after fabrication on a 300...

Making logic chips has never been an easy task, and it is one that has been further challenged by advances in scaling as well as advanced topologies like chiplets. From the race to 2nm-foundry creation for next-generation wafer development and the related issues of packaging, engineers must develop new solutions. In this episode, we talk to Henri Richard, GM and president of Rapidus Design Solutio...